The Company That Makes Glass For Apple Isn't Happy About Apple's Move To Sapphirehttp://www.businessinsider.com/corning-exec-apple-sapphire-criticism-2014-3/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:02:04 -0500Kyle Russellhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/532095ec69bedde9417bc862Steffen JobbsWed, 12 Mar 2014 13:14:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/532095ec69bedde9417bc862
The Corning guys have spoken. "If Apple goes with anything other than Gorilla Glass, they are headed for a major disaster. There is no other material in this world that is better than Gorilla Glass for smartphone displays and Apple is clearly deluded into thinking otherwise. We will sit back and laugh as the sapphire iPhone display shatters when going from indoors to outdoors in cold weather."http://www.businessinsider.com/c/531912aceab8ea861652981fSAL-eThu, 06 Mar 2014 19:28:28 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/531912aceab8ea861652981f
"OPEN = A FRIGGIN DECADE"
BS. The bug was discovered on Mar 3 2014 and fixed on Mar 7 2014. Fixed in 4 days.
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GnuTLS CVE-2014-0092 Certificate Validation Security Bypass Vulnerability [1]
Published: Mar 03 2014 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 07 2014 12:02AM
[1] <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65919" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65919</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5318ee1a69bedd172b35454fSallysMuffinThu, 06 Mar 2014 16:52:26 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5318ee1a69bedd172b35454f
Let's see:
CLOSED = 1 version, 6.0 to 7.06
OPEN = A FRIGGIN DECADE
OPEN ALWAYS WINS! LOL!!!
Programmer Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos who works for Red Hat, has discovered a major security problem with the Linux operating system—a bug that could allow a hacker to create a certificate that could bypass the normal authenticity checks. Red Hat sent out an immediate alert and suggests all those who use its product update their software with a fix they've made available.
Officially known as CVE-2014-0092, the bug appears to be a simple programming error—one that has been in a part of the Linux operating system for over a decade. More specifically, the bug involves GnuTLS's (a library of functions used for processing certificate requests) validation of X509 certificates. In many respects, the error appears to be similar to the "goto fail" security problem that cropped up in iOS and OS X recently. At issue in both cases is the infamous GOTO computer command which has been criticized by several high profile programmers for several years. Problems occur with it due to a programmer failing to consider one or more events. GOTO commands are called on demand, i.e. IF condition GOTO some other part of the code. The problem can be made worse if negative conditions are used because humans can't always think of every possible outcome.
In this instance, GOTO commands were being executed under certain conditions that allowed for bypassing certificate authentication, allowing unauthenticated certificates to be processed as if they were authentic. If a hacker discovered the flaw, they could cause their own certificates to be authenticated, allowing for decrypting data. That of course could impact a lot of users as Linux, especially the Red Hat version, is very commonly used as a web server operating system.
What is most surprising about the bug is that it went undetected for so long.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5317b89169beddd97f5e99b7SAL-eWed, 05 Mar 2014 18:51:45 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5317b89169beddd97f5e99b7
After the Apple's SSL fiasco, you would think that Apple fanboys will be more humble, but no they just keep repeating their talking points. All, and I mean all, Apple devices was exploitable WITHOUT need to install malware. Yes, Apple 'fixed' it ... after it was disclosed. But how many holes are still open?!
"If you like your security (by obscurity), you can keep it. Period."
--Apple.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5317b65becad04cf285e99b9SAL-eWed, 05 Mar 2014 18:42:19 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5317b65becad04cf285e99b9
Corning have a problem. Losing one of its client (biggest probably) is good reason to be concern in short term, but in long term Corning should be fine. Corning Glass it have properties that will make it useful in many other applications like curved/flexible screens.
"... Oh and by the way, it was Steve Jobs that suggested they should go ahead and produce the Gorilla Glass they were working on... Yet another "innovation" that Apple made happen. "
LOL. This part reads like: "I like the new BMW i3... so I made it happen."http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5317a6c9ecad0408765e99b9a2Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:35:53 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5317a6c9ecad0408765e99b9
Ironically it looks like they may be just scared. Pretty certain early last week someone was moaning about not being able to deliver their kickstarted project as Apple had bought up all the sapphire deliveries for the next 3 years.
So this is just panic on Corning's behalf. Oh and by the way, it was Steve Jobs that suggested they should go ahead and produce the Gorilla Glass they were working on... Yet another "innovation" that Apple made happen.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5317a45769beddeb355e99b7bFansMuffinWed, 05 Mar 2014 17:25:27 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5317a45769beddeb355e99b7
You misspelled malware.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5317a35069bedd4c315e99bebFanWed, 05 Mar 2014 17:21:04 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5317a35069bedd4c315e99be
Thanks for the good thoughts. We will enjoy our freedom.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5317a09b6da81125645e99bbSallysMuffinWed, 05 Mar 2014 17:09:31 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5317a09b6da81125645e99bb
You enjoy your plastic bandage phone. We'll enjoy our sapphire phone. We'll also enjoy our higher resale. Tata Sally.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/531787556da811216d50978aSAL-eWed, 05 Mar 2014 15:21:41 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/531787556da811216d50978a
I'm sure that Apple fans will be more then happy to pay dearly for sapphire screens, just to able to brag about it. And I'm sure that Apple will have some "impressive engineering" to compensate for fragility of the sapphire. I only hope they test it better then 'impressively engineered' antenna of the iPhone 4.
Apple share holders... rejoice ... all those $$$ sapphire replacement screens... sweet.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/531779bcecad048c6139bd87Steffen JobbsWed, 05 Mar 2014 14:23:40 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/531779bcecad048c6139bd87
Apart from possibly losing a Gorilla Glass contract with Apple, I don't see why they should even care what Apple uses on their iPhones. If they think that Apple is making such a big mistake, then it will be on Tim Cook's head. I suppose Corning could say the same thing if Apple had chosen some other company's Gorilla Glass alternative. I'm still not quite certain whether it's in Corning's best interest to criticize Apple's choices. I think it was Apple that kind of kick-started the wide usage of Gorilla Glass in the first place. Although it may not be obvious to Corning, I'm sure Apple sees some advantage to sapphire providing it's going to be used in the iPhone's next displays at all. Maybe it will be used for some other purpose.